Japanese Curry Meets Brit Crumbed Fish

This creation was inspired by a visit to Coco Ichibanya in London's China Town.

Coco Ichibanya is a 'fast food' place with table service, specialising in Japanese style curry.  

The menu of this popular chain restaurant inspired with omelette, katsu and some shrimp/prawn croquettes with curry.

The following week, at home, Brit crumbed fish (frozen and intended for oven baking) met Japanese style curry sauce.  I knew the fish would be crunchy like anything coated in panko and fried.  S&B cubes, first discovered during Covid, made the curry sauce.  Finally, there was a nice mathematical straight line of curry for presentation (that seemed important in all the ichibanya menu pictures).

My S&B is a green one, mild, so extra cayenne went in when I sauteed the onion. This cheerfully upped the heat a little and was a welcome touch.  After buying the green, I heard there's a red one!  Harrumph, next time,  Otherwise, no further fiddling occurred, rare but true.   Japan has these curry cubes engineered to perfection.

Whilst the fish baked, some previously cooked rice rice went in the microwave ready for reheating. 

I could then focus on the sauce, simply made with sautéed onion, cayenne pepper.  Add water and roundish peeled and sliced carrots then simmer for 15 mins.  Add portioned S&B cubes and cook 5 more minutes.

Am declaring this sauce ready (it was).

Ingredients (2):

2 crumbed white fish fillets, oven baked until crunchy (around 20 mins from frozen at 185 celsius).

2 portions of cooked rice, reheated

Sauce:

1 medium onion, peeled and chopped

1/3 tsp cayenne pepper

1/2 TBSP flavourless oil

2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced

360ml water, 1.5 U.S cups

2 green S&B cubes, 36g

Method:

Soften the onion with cayenne in oil for around 5 minutes.

Bake fish in the oven

Add carrot and water, bring to a simmer and cook until the vegetables are soft (around 15 minutes).

Off the heat, stir in the curry cubes and cook gently for 5 minutes.

Microwave rice.

The fish will be perfectly crispy, serve plated as you wish.. I ate mine with a spoon and chopsticks.